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MustardFacial posted:
*shrugs* I don't get the V8 love. I mean, I get why people like them due to easy access to parts and power, but I'd rather do more with less.  I'm weird.
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Amidst and among the earlier nonsense, I mentioned I was looking for a 7 passenger beater vehicle. What do I need to know about a '98 Ford Expedition 4x4 with the 5.4 V8?
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Ozmiander posted:...You do realize that "soccer" is originally an "english" term for the sport, "right"? I do, but it doesn't mean the word gets used. When someone over here says the word 'soccer' they get the same sort of looks as I imagine someone in the US would if they asked you if you wanted to 'go outside and smoke some fags' MrChips posted:Unlike English soccer fans, American football fans don't need to be locked up in cages in the stands like zoo animals. Don't get me wrong - I'm not defending football fans, just the English language!  Do you sing obscene songs at American football matches? I'd love to go to an American football match in the US. I think most people in the UK just don't know any better and go to football because it is so common. I used to hate watching sports (other than motorsports) until i went to my first football match aged 25 or so. I live in the lovely northern bit of the UK so most of the people at matches here should be caged and view a football match as something to do at the end of a pub crawl. I think it is the crowd that makes it? Then I discovered Rugby and it instantly ruined football for me since at the Rugby I can get a pint at my seat and it comes with a lid on to keep the rain out. And they have cheerleaders and proper halftime entertainment and play tunes when points are scored. I suspect that American football does it even better - but I think I would miss the obscene and bizarre songs of the UK football match.
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CommieGIR posted:*shrugs* I don't get the V8 love. I mean, I get why people like them due to easy access to parts and power, but I'd rather do more with less. Nah, I get it. There's something to be said for wringing every last bit of power out of as little as possible. It's why I got the GTI to begin with. But on the other hand there is something so guttural about a V8 rumbling beneath the hood of a car that has no business messing with such raw force. As if it could kill you at a moments notice without effort, it just chooses not to....right now.
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meatpimp posted:Amidst and among the earlier nonsense, I mentioned I was looking for a 7 passenger beater vehicle. Make sure the plugs are torqued correctly to try and prevent ejection. If it happens, here's one guy's fix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDL3i6mT8V4
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Super Aggro Crag posted:Yeah rear end in a top hat I took a 50% paycut what else would I be bitching about? Haha. Sure you can post about whatever you want, but don't expect not to get your balls busted, take it in stride man. MrChips posted:There's a difference between having a couple of jail cells in a stadium, and the entire seating area being effectively a giant jail cell. Or in the case of Hillsbourough, a giant barbecue pit. English football fans are like roving gangs creating carnage wherever they go, traveling to rival cities just to get drunk, gently caress with the locals and get into fights then get beat up by the police. The actual games aren't even the half of it.
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there was this film I saw once don't remember what it was called green Street something.. Anyway it was all about the football gangs and now i know everything about it
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corn in the fridge posted:there was this film I saw once don't remember what it was called green Street something.. Anyway it was all about the football gangs and now i know everything about it Green street hooligans. It was a pretty alright movie if you don't actually give that much of a gently caress about sportball and just want to watch frodo and young ben kenobi get beat up
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Cakefool posted:I stopped on the way home to look at an NB mx5 and it didn't excite me on the slightest. Am I broken? Will I feel different when my garage is useable rather than packed full of poo poo and inaccessible? I test-drove an Evora today, and didn't find it thrilling at all  .The steering was very good; the shifter was marginally better than the Spyder's floppy rubber. The pedals were very well set up for side-to-side heel-toeing, but it was hard for me to adapt because that Camry V6 had abysmal engine sound. I apparently take for granted sufficient engine noise to know where the revs are, because at 2-4k, the motor is so quiet that I didn't know if I was getting enough on the gas to blip it. And that's with the sport exhaust option and sport exhaust mode on. Saturday is the 818 and then Sunday, the 348. At this rate, the 348 better be a magical experience to talk me out of the Spyder. CommieGIR posted:*shrugs* I don't get the V8 love. I mean, I get why people like them due to easy access to parts and power, but I'd rather do more with less. The GM small block is pretty small. An LS7 gets 500hp without overhead cams, without 4 valves a cylinder. It embodies doing more with less. Just less parts, instead of less displacement. kimbo305 fucked around with this message at 01:25 on Sep 12, 2015 |
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Don't Argentinian football fans throw stick of dynamite at each other? [edit]No, they just throw them on the field.
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kimbo305 posted:The GM small block is pretty small. An LS7 gets 500hp without overhead cams, without 4 valves a cylinder. It embodies doing more with less. Just less parts, instead of less displacement. Its a 7 liter engine. Even if you cut it in half, it would be a 3.5l 4 cylinder. That's not small.
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CommieGIR posted:*shrugs* I don't get the V8 love. I mean, I get why people like them due to easy access to parts and power, but I'd rather do more with less. Something about big boofy bellow monsters that tear tarmac with utter ease. Sometimes more is best. And besides, when you want to get all you can out of it...... magic happens. Plus you know, 300Kw out of 6 litres, piss of piss. 300Kw out of a 2Litre..... kinda starts to become an issue.
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That said I'm capacity agnostic. 1 litre Minis are hysterical fun, 7 litre Commodres are scary as gently caress. Both rock
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CommieGIR posted:Its a 7 liter engine. Even if you cut it in half, it would be a 3.5l 4 cylinder. That's not small. LS3 on the left, miata engine on the right:  That's pretty loving small.
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CommieGIR posted:*shrugs* I don't get the V8 love. I mean, I get why people like them due to easy access to parts and power, but I'd rather do more with less. Heretic! HERETIC! There's a building site near my work, and one of the workers cars, an old R30 Skyline wagon, has number plates on it which reads "I (heart symbol) BJS". I wonder how VicRoads didn't pick that up
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MustardFacial posted:LS3 on the left, miata engine on the right: Most of the size of that 4 cylinder is the manifolds and all the accessories... You Am I posted:Heretic! Yes I am.
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CommieGIR posted:Most of the size of that 4 cylinder is the manifolds and all the accessories... Which are still a part of the packaging equation. To get equivalent power, you're gonna have to pack a turbo on there, not to mention the intercooler, etc.
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CommieGIR posted:*shrugs* I don't get the V8 love. I mean, I get why people like them due to easy access to parts and power, but I'd rather do more with less. Doing more with more is also an option.
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Don't push buttons on the electronic games at resteraunt tables. They charge you for that poo poo. Fuckers. I showed them tho I ripped the entire receipt roll outta that bitch.
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kimbo305 posted:Which are still a part of the packaging equation. To get equivalent power, you're gonna have to pack a turbo on there, not to mention the intercooler, etc. Your size comparison was the blocks, but its not a fair comparison because there's no accessories on the V8, all accessories on the 4 cylinder. Galler posted:Doing more with more is also an option. Yes. It is. But its just kinda....old to me. Everyone is doing LS swaps. Everyone has a V8. Everyone talks about their 500 horsepower V8. Its not really all that impressive to me. Again, personal opinion.
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I see both sides. I like a little let's-see-what-we-can-get-out-of-it engine, I like a big throbby engine. Depends whether it suits the vehicle and usage criteria, really.
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CommieGIR posted:Your size comparison was the blocks, but its not a fair comparison because there's no accessories on the V8, all accessories on the 4 cylinder. I can see how the hundreds of hours of work and custom fabrication to cram a V8 into a small car would not be impressive. Putting a bigger turbo on a 4 cyl, though...hoo now that's impressive. Super Aggro Crag posted:Don't push buttons on the electronic games at resteraunt tables. They charge you for that poo poo. Fuckers. I showed them tho I ripped the entire receipt roll outta that bitch. MustardFacial fucked around with this message at 02:05 on Sep 12, 2015 |
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Super Aggro Crag posted:Don't push buttons on the electronic games at resteraunt tables. They charge you for that poo poo. Fuckers. I showed them tho I ripped the entire receipt roll outta that bitch. You truly are a ray of sunshine arent you... A friend of me asked me over to test a bottle or two of his homebrewed IPA, ha had tapped 28 bottles. now he has none. i walked home because taxis are for other people. i also peed at a stop sign
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CommieGIR posted:Your size comparison was the blocks, but its not a fair comparison because there's no accessories on the V8, all accessories on the 4 cylinder. quote:Yes. It is. But its just kinda....old to me. Everyone is doing LS swaps. Everyone has a V8. Everyone talks about their 500 horsepower V8.
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kimbo305 posted:It never struck me as impressive -- it's just cheap power compared to getting rare parts to build up a poorly-supported motor or swapping in something exotic like a V12.
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kimbo305 posted:It never struck me as impressive -- it's just cheap power compared to getting rare parts to build up a poorly-supported motor or swapping in something exotic like a V12. InitialDave posted:There is something to be said for sheer bloodymindedness when people manage to get a load of power out of a rather unsuitable engine. 200bhp from an NA Ford pre-crossflow Kent. Mini A-series with a 16v, 8-port head and forced induction. Even though I don't like diesels a great deal, some of the VAG 1.9 builds are just silly. Pretty much this. I'm much more impressed by little 4, 5, and 6 cylinders squeezing out performance over power.
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CommieGIR posted:Most of the size of that 4 cylinder is the manifolds and all the accessories... That LS clearly has all 3 manifolds attached and the accessories don't add much at all to the footprint of either engine. There's also this:  The UZ ranges from 4.0 to 4.7 liters, the LS from 4.8 to 7.4. But we can play this game all day and not find a point in it. I own both an LS and a UZ and have had 3 Mazda 4 cylinders and I like all of these engines. Turbo Fondant fucked around with this message at 02:18 on Sep 12, 2015 |
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Tommychu posted:That LS clearly has all 3 manifolds attached and the accessories don't add much at all to the footprint of either engine. There's also this: I did paraphrase it with: "Just my opinion". And yes, I'm aware its a 'Small Block V8' Maybe I got sick of it because every damned car meet is "Check out my LS, Here's my LS. Look at my LS".
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[quote="CommieGIR" post=""450094263"] Maybe I got sick of it because every damned car meet is "Check out my LS, Here's my LS. Look at my LS". [/quote] People who do this don't like cars, they like status symbols. Ignore them.
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in a day and age where thousands of american servicemen and hundreds of thousands of iraqis and afghanis have died in unjust wars fought for oil where the government can listen in on anything and everything you do on the internet and your smartphone with nothing stopping them but their own goodwill (lol) where governmental coddling of the rich led to the worst financial meltdown since the loving great depression where people are shot dead in the streets by policemen who get medals and promotions for their deeds without so much as getting charges filed if the person happened to be innocent why the gently caress do people persist in posting bullshit 9/11 and moon landing conspiracies as THE BIG SECRET THEY'RE HIDING FROM YOU?
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Elect Trump and it will all stop
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Enourmo posted:why the gently caress do people persist in posting bullshit 9/11 and moon landing conspiracies as THE BIG SECRET THEY'RE HIDING FROM YOU?   "Jet Fuel can't melt steel beams"Its as if these loving idiots can't understand why hot steel might be slightly weaker.... But either way, the saddest part of 9/11 for me is how it was used as a launchpad for a baseless war...
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Documentary Now might be the most ridiculous show in a long time.
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Enourmo posted:Government stuff http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WD3lgI9QIV8
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Same reason people are so concerned about what other people doing with their dongles while hunger and homelessness are a real problem in their first world country. You can certainly be worried about both, but I think one would have a slightly higher priority. Hate these people! Fear that thing! If you aren't both furious and terrified every waking moment of your life you're not doing it right! e: This: leica posted:Elect Trump and it will all stop
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CommieGIR posted:I did paraphrase it with: "Just my opinion". And yes, I'm aware its a 'Small Block V8' That's why I'll be sure to point out that mine's an LQ once I get it in the Nova. After I build it... and buy it...
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i can't find it right now but there's a comedian who did a similar bit fairly recently "There's no way they could have landed on the moon in 1969!" "Pffft... you believe in the moon?" nah just the parts i don't like Ineptus Mechanicus posted:Same reason people are so concerned about what other people doing with their dongles while hunger and homelessness are a real problem in their first world country. You can certainly be worried about both, but I think one would have a slightly higher priority. i know the answer i'm just pissed off about it
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Enourmo posted:i know the answer i'm just pissed off about it You and me both...trolling ultraconservatives and conspiracy theorists helps, though.
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